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| 2 flowers. |
I'm always envious of my friends who talk about their kids sleeping until 8:00 or 9:00 in the mornings. There was a time when mine would sleep at least until 8:00, but no more. They just love to tackle the day as soon as the sun comes up….or maybe they just really love our learning sessions and can't wait to get started. Ha! Whatever the reason, we are all up before 7:00 AM in the mornings. We have breakfast, get dressed, make up our beds and brush teeth, all before 8:00 (the time our lesson starts).
This week we learned about the following:
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| 2 |
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| U |
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| Circle |
...and our memory verse is "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Matthew 22:39
To go along with this week's memory verse, we talked a lot about community service and thinking of others. Monday, we took plastic bags to Avondale Park and picked up litter on the park grounds (although, next time we do that, I will bring rubber gloves).
Tuesday, we made "hugs" for our actual neighbors (our buddies who live on our street):
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| Hugs I saw on Pinterest. |
I did this week a little different from last week in this way: I introduced all three concepts on Monday, but focused on one thing at a time the rest of the week…Tuesday-Circles, Wednesday-2 and Thursday-U. We were a little lax on Friday because we were excited about company coming. I admit I relied on Dora to reinforce the concepts we learned this week, while I washed sheets and vacuumed floors. It happens. haha!
Week 2 morning activities:
Avondale Park and Library
Original Pancake House and Vulcan Park
Zoo splashpad and Carousel
Quiet morning at home and Ava's first day of Ballet
A trip to Dollar Tree (for Ava's birthday supplies) and last minute house-tidying for weekend company
Our Shape Chart: (Just a piece of contraction paper where we keep up with what shapes we've discussed by gluing on plastic gemstones in respective shapes)
Crafts we did with U and 2 this week simply involved construction paper and paint. I drew the number and letter on the paper and then let them go back over it with paint (U) and glue paper pieces on top (2).
We only had two ABC box surprises this week. They were Umbrella and Ukelele. Here is an amazing Ukelele version of "Let it Go" that we stumbled upon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHmGUrpOgAU
Circles we found at Vulcan Park:
Food Circles:
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| Making pizza |
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| Pizza |
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| Original Pancake House |
Call this a misguided notion, but I feel that a well-rounded education includes Disney classic movies. Thanks to the local library, last week we watched Cinderella. This week, we have enjoyed Peter Pan.
My daughter has memorized the Bible verse by now, but before she really got it, she was saying, "You shout love your neighbors of your shelf."
Circles, U's and 2's are so easy to find anywhere. I think the most fun we have is looking for environmental shapes, numbers and letters.
There were a couple off days this week…as in, we didn't stick exactly to our schedule. I was a little tempted to stress about that, because I'm trying to be organized. But I realized that it was okay. They are still learning a lot and our schedule can stand to be dynamic.
Website Resources from the week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHmGUrpOgAU (really amazing Ukelele version of Let it Go)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUiCcn9lnhQ (a great U song video that the kids loved, but slightly made me feel like i was getting a migraine-haha!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gt6cHooI6M (my son loves Elmo and balls, so we watched this and thought about balls/circles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxardpBReQc (Elmos and Elvis Costello singing about the number 2)
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